Essentials

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Essentials offers over 100 commands useful on just about every Minecraft server, from kits to mob spawning.

Essentials is the de-facto standard set up for Minecraft servers. From small servers running on on desktops, VPS hosts and dedicated Minecraft services.
Essentials is one of the most popular Bukkit plugins ever made, and runs on everything from small one person home hosted Windows servers, to huge 500+ slot dedicated Linux community servers.

June

5 June 2013

New Stuff: Withdrawing or breaking trade signs will not drop items on the ground.Cool Changes: Admins can now use most commands on vanished players.Syntax Changes: Mobs armor support: /spawnmob (skeleton/zombie/pigzombie):(diamond/iron/gold)armor

January

20 January 2013

New Stuff: Item meta support. Cool Changes: /kit, /give and /item now support item meta, including written books, custom item names and lore. New permissions: essentials.jail.allow.<command>New commands: /book: re-open a written book for reediting

December

21 December 2012

New Stuff: Show total profit from /sell all, new mobs in /spawnmob.Cool Changes: Warn other player when teleport fails, extra information in /seen, vanilla syntax support for tpNew permissions: essentials.tptoggle.others

August

10 August 2012

New Stuff: New Signs: Info and Repair. Cool Changes: Fix /top so that glass counts as a real block, If you don't want players inviting players to other worlds, do not give them essentials.world.<currentworld>, Fix right click on signs, Fix teleports on beds, Add 'l<level>' syntax to /exp command (eg /exp set l20) New permissions: essentials.workbench, essentials.keepxp New commands: /workbench: Allows you to open up a workbench window (effect similar to right clicking a placed workbench)

March

31 March 2012

New Stuff: Plugin metrics now supported! Cool Changes: Support for 1.2.x, /setworth can now be used in-game, jail time now shows in /whois, color sign can now be enabled in config (or disabled), bugfixes. New permissions: essentials.lightning.others, essentials.tp.others, essentials.fly New commands: /fly: enables creative-mode flying.

February

28 February 2012

New stuff: Colour codes and messages in /ping. Cool Changes: Some improvements to the jail system, improvements to powertools, adjustments to /eco, bugfixes. Coming soon: Still no ETA on 3.0, but it will be ready when it's ready. Good things come to those who wait, right?

January

31 January 2012

New stuff: Colour now supported in /msg, /nick and /r, support for latest bukkit builds.Cool Changes: Major performance increases in EssentialsChat, new event code for EssentialsSpawn. All signs now disabled by default, can be enabled in the config. Coming soon: 3.0 will boast major performance increases, a new way of handling prefixes/suffixes, improvements to EssentialsChat, and much, much, more!

December

06 December 2011

New commands: /mail sendall [message]- sends mail to all players. /itemdb [item]- looks up an item. /break- removes the block you are looking at. /feed- fills your hunger bar. /more- fills the stack in your hand. /remove- removes entities in a selected radius. New stuff: [enchant] signs. Permissions for individual worlds with /world. Permissions for the new commands. More MOTD options. Cool Changes: players can now be sent to spawn with a command. Lots of bugfixes. /back now supports other spawn plugins.Coming soon: extended functionality to the [time] sign. Still waiting for a recommended build from bukkit.

01 December 2011

New commands: /enchant - Enchant those items, /spawnmob supports new mobs and babies, /near shows nearby players. New stuff: /spawnmob supports new mobs and babies, new motd features including {DATE} and {TIME} thanks to khyperia. Cool Changes: Lots of optimisation, this should clean user loading, and general RAM/CPU use. Support pages in rules/motd, and is now stored in a separate file.Coming soon: Release build of Essentials for Minecraft 1.0 - We're waiting for a RB. Also, new commands will be added as /more.

November

21 November 2011

New stuff: Essentials will now check for alias conflicts and allow other plugins to override those as well as commands, /sudo command, unipban players by account name. Recent changes: Got rid of a lot of outdated and unnecessary code. Continued to support latest bukkit dev builds.Coming soon: Lots of code cleanup, we're in the middle of rewriting a huge chunk of Essentials, the framework should be nice and clean for the 1.0 release.

05 November 2011

New stuff: /powertools c:, /gamemode command, Extra command aliases, colour in nicknames Cool Changes: More information available in whois, /list should show new groups instantly.Coming soon: Group Manager will notify and inform players when the groupmanager file was manually edited, and give you a chance to load it.

May

14 May 2011

New stuff: Essentials Eco now has an API; Item spawn blacklist; Temporary bans/jails/mutes; Essentials GeoIP.Coming soon: iConomy 4 & 5 API support; TranslationsWiki news: I've just created some new tutorials for Group Manager, and we've gone through updating the Command Reference, so everything should be just about up to date.Other news: Zenexer has just released a new Minecraft social network, and we have a group and forums.

April

27 April 2011

Essentials for Minecraft Beta 1.5 has been released - Version 2.2.x . Get the latest Bukkit recommended build here and the most recent Essentials Release in Downloads. This brings some fun things to do with the weather.

15:30, 10 March 2011 (EST)

07:10, 8 March 2011 (EST)

The merge is complete and in release. Ementalo and snowleo have been busy updating and debugging and togglejail now supports multiple jails and multiworld. snowleo has added in a simple backup solution (more info coming). I'll keep you abreast of any information and updates as soon as I can.

15:02, 7 March 2011 (EST)

Aelux is busy writing up the groupmanager tutuorial which should be ready "TODAY" in his own words while we've begun merging some of the commands back into essentials thus alleviating the need to have so many plugin files. So far essentails warp, ban, help, and home have been merged. I'll update as soon as more news comes to me.

13:56, 7 March 2011 (EST)

Sorry for the lack of updates. I been busy. Hopefully I can finally release the group manager tutorial. It was delayed because of the constant changes made by its developer.

Each month, the news will be cleared and readied for the current month. Logging all the news would just saturate this page with updates that will be very evident and explained on other pages. I want to keep this page simply for quick tid-bits about new features/developments.